Andryshchenko T. Aesthetical аs a Social and Cultural Phenomenon (Philosophical-Historical Analysis).

The thesis is devoted to studying philosophical-historical and cultural approaches to the contemporary definition of aesthetical as a social phenomenon, a moral, axiological and worldview determinant in the perspective of humans' new existential conditions. It is determined that "aesthetical" is a process, a product and a result of an appropriate contemplative-sensory and artistic-emotional representation of a certain object which is materialized according to its internal essence in a perfect form. A philosophical reflexion of an "aesthetical" has been implemented to consider the latter in ontological, gnoseological, and anthropological-axiological dimensions in the context of historical and cultural progress of humankind and changes of philosophical paradigms.